Posted on 05/16/2016 7:25:41 AM PDT by detective
Writing in Forbes last year, Steve Moore, a Catholic, asked: “What is the theological case for telling those in the poorest villages of the planet where people still live at subsistence levels, that they have a moral obligation to save the planet by staying poor and using less fossil fuels, less energy and electricity?”
Three months later, Vatican Radio ran the telltale headline: “Pope: Christians Should Kneel Before the Poor.” The article cited Pope Francis’ assertion that “poverty is the great teaching” Jesus gave us, and that “the poor are not a burden but a resource.” He capped his homily with, “How I wish that Christians could kneel in veneration when a poor person enters the church.”
His comment was a red flag that went largely unnoticed. Only a handful of Catholic bloggers remarked on it. They are sensitive to Francis’ tendency not to genuflect at those sacred moments during Mass that traditional rubrics require it. Yet he kneels to wash—and kiss—the feet of juvenile offenders or women in a Buenos Aires maternity hospital. Why not at Mass? Have the poor become surrogates for the Eucharist? And what are we to make of elevating poverty from a condition to be addressed to a teaching to be cherished?
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Pope Francis promotes the KGB world view that free enterprise economies are driven by greed and that poverty is a result of economic freedom. Communists and totalitarians are said to care about their people when they deny them freedom or opportunity.
The poor are used as an ideological weapon against progress. The poor are use as an ideological weapon against personal freedom and personal responsibility. The poor are used as an ideological weapon against America.
Pope Francis is unaware and/or refuses to accept that free economies are dominated not by rich and poor but by the middle class.
Pope Francis is trying to turn the Catholic Church into a tool to promote totalitarianism. His heroes are the people who have created misery and suffering in Venezuela, Cuba and other Communist countries.
Pope Francis is an evil man. He is not a man of God.
If Obama was pope...
The Pope is a Dope.
Post #1 >>>Pope Francis is trying to turn the Catholic Church into a tool to promote totalitarianism. His heroes are the people who have created misery and suffering in Venezuela, Cuba and other Communist countries.
Pope Francis is an evil man. He is not a man of God.<<<
Judge not so harshly, lest you be judged in the same measure.
Have a delightful day...
I think Pope Francis and Obama are the same guy! All those golf outings? Merely a distraction. lol
The whole issue is how the Bible and in a special way, the NT is understood.
Take care of the disabled, mentally deficient, orphans and the elderly. Let the other “poor” people fend for themselves.
Pope Francis acting the part of “High Sparrow”.
If the poor are such a wonderful resource, why doesn't Pope Francis get off his fat a$$ and donate his billions, tear down his wall, and move 7000 muslim refuges into Vatican City, so that he will cease being a mega hypocrite?
Only if the most RC zealots here on FR would figure that out...(your post)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
If poverty is so noble and great, everyone should become impoverished, NO EXCEPTIONS FOR THE POPE AND HIS NWO COLLEGUES!
God must love poor folks,
‘cause he made so many of ‘em.
-—Brother Dave
“The Pope is a Dope.”
I wish this were the case. Unfortunately, Pope Francis is more dangerous than dopey.
And we should kneel and kiss the ring of the Pope, pray to dead Mary and other saints. Yeah, I think evil and not a man of God pretty much sums it up. Worship (and don't split hairs over the meaning of veneration) belongs only to God. Capitalism has helped millions and socialism has brought misery and destitution to millions but that is lost on the Pope in the palace.
Most poor people are religious fundamentalists of one sort or another. How do liberals manage to love one and hate the other???
Fiddler on the Roof: " Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize there's no shame in being poor...but it's no great honor either.
Less fossil fuel
or
fewer fossil fuels
It is really a shame that J school no longer requires proficiency in the English, or probably any other language, to write for publication.
Conditional, contrary to fact.
fewer fossil fuel fools
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.